Cartesian means of or relating to the French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes — from his name — Rene Des-Cartes. See: Cartesian anxiety Cartesian circle Cartesian dualism Cartesian Meditations, a work by Edmund Husserl Cartesian linguistics, a work by Noam Chomsky Cartesian theater the Cartesian diver experiment Cartesian physics In mathematics, the following meanings are found: Cartesian closed category, a closed category in category theory Cartesian coord… (More on Cartesian)